Hitmonlee may be a personification of {{wp|kick boxing}}, a sport that focuses on kick attacks. Hitmonlee bears resemblance to {{wp|Blemmyes (legendary creatures)|Blemmyes}} due to his lack of an actual head. The overall shape of his body also resembles a human foot. He may also be a personification of {{wp|Tadashi Sawamura}}.
Hitmonlee may be a personification of {{wp|kick boxing}}, a sport that focuses on kick attacks. Hitmonlee bears resemblance to {{wp|Blemmyes (legendary creatures)|Blemmyes}} due to his lack of an actual head. The overall shape of his body also resembles a human foot. He may also represent {{wp|Tadashi Sawamura}}.
Hitmonlee is a human and egg-shaped Pokémon. Primarily brown, Hitmonlee has cream-colored, segmented arms and legs, with three fingers and three claw-like toes. The muscles on its legs are akin to a coiled spring, being able to freely expand and contract. These muscles are more accurate than its arms, allowing it to perform powerful knee and kick attacks. Hitmonlee has almond-shaped eyes with black rings around them, and its feet have yellow coloration on their ankles and soles. It appears to lack a nose and mouth.
Gender differences
Hitmonlee is a male-only species with no female counterpart.
Special abilities
Hitmonlee possesses a considerable sense of balance, enabling him to kick in succession from any position. When kicking, the sole of his foot turns as hard as a diamond on impact. Hitmonlee knows several kick-based moves, including the rarely seen Blaze Kick. His leg muscles have the special ability to freely stretch and compress. Hitmonlee also has a few mental-based moves such as Meditate and Mind Reader. As with other Template:Type2 Pokémon, Hitmonlee is capable of a few Template:Type2 moves and Earthquake.
When in a hurry, his legs lengthen progressively. He can run smoothly with long, loping strides. After battle, he rubs down its legs and loosens the muscles to overcome fatigue.
A Hitmonlee appeared in Casting a Paul on Barry!, under the ownership of Barry. Despite being able to cause a lot of damage to Paul's Ursaring, it was eventually defeated after inadvertently triggering Ursaring's Guts ability.
A Hitmonlee owned by Corey was one of the Pokémon owned by that were captured and cloned by Mewtwo in Mewtwo Strikes Back. The Hitmonlee clone was seen again in Mewtwo Returns.
Master Hamm used a Hitmonlee against his son Kyle, a cook, in Pasta La Vista. If the Dojo Master won, he would retire, and Kyle would have to give up his shop for the Dojo. If Kyle won, it would all stay the same. Ash, and May ended up taking the place of the two. As it was a draw, Kyle and his father decided to both work at the restaurant while Kyle's girlfriend Terri took up ownership of the Dojo.
Hitmonlee, the Kicking Pokémon, and the evolved form of Tyrogue. Its legs double in length, and opponents are surprised by Hitmonlee's attack range when facing it for the first time.
Hitmonlee later appears as one of Bruno's Pokémon, who destroyed Bill's house. Bruno explains that Hitmonlee's legs are so flexible, it's impossible to locate the position of its knees and attack them.
When released from a Poké Ball, Hitmonlee will preform a Hi Jump Kick dealing a great amount of damage on whoever it hit. Hitmonlee did not return in Super Smash Bros. Melee and was replaced by Scizor who attacks in a similar way.
Hitmonlee's legs freely contract and stretch. Using these springlike legs, it bowls over foes with devastating kicks. After battle, it rubs down its legs and loosens the muscles to overcome fatigue.
Its legs freely stretch and contract. Using these springlike limbs, it bowls over foes with devastating kicks. After battle, it rubs down its tired legs.
Hitmonlee is taking a break at the hot spring in the Cavern Zone on the way to the Lava Zone. He's a heavy hitter when it comes to Bastiodon's Block Barrage.
Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are the only Pokémon that weren't previously related through an evolution family, then later gained a shared pre-evolution.
Despite his Pokémon Crystal Pokédex entry stating that he can execute every known kick, Hitmonlee cannot learn Triple Kick, due to the fact that the move is exclusive to Hitmontop.
Hitmonlee is the only Pokémon to learn Mega Kick by leveling up.
Despite using an opposite style of fighting to Hitmonchan, kicking instead of punching, he can still learn multiple punching moves through breeding.
Hitmonlee is the only Fighting-type Pokémon with no visible mouth at any time.
Hitmonlee, along with Throh, Sawk, Tauros, Rufflet, Braviary and its evolutionary relatives, is one of the few gendered non-legendary Pokémon naturally occurring in the wild that cannot reproduce without a Ditto as they are male-only species.
Origin
Hitmonlee may be a personification of kick boxing, a sport that focuses on kick attacks. Hitmonlee bears resemblance to Blemmyes due to his lack of an actual head. The overall shape of his body also resembles a human foot. He may also represent Tadashi Sawamura.
Name origin
Hitmonlee's name can be broken down into "hit", "monster" and "Lee"—as in Bruce Lee; perhaps meaning "the monster that hits like Bruce Lee". The name is also related to Hitmonchan and Hitmontop, both of which are parallel evolutions to it as of Generation II. His Japanese name comes from the world's first kickboxer, Tadashi Sawamura.
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